Searching for the Lotus-Born Master (Ⅶ)

Editor's note: Laurence Brahm first came to China as a university exchange student from the US in 1981 and has spent much of the past three and a half decades living and working in China. He is a lawyer, an economist and founding chairman of the Himalayan Consensus. He is also an award-winning documentary film director specializing in extreme Himalayan expeditions. His latest film Searching for the Lotus-Born Master (2018) has received a dozen international film festival awards and accolades.

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The sixth manifestation is Shakya Sengye, the Lotus-Born Master became the second Buddha. While he took his Buddhist vows at Bodhgaya. Scholars believe the enlightenment cave is located at Yangleshou in Pharping, a village in the mountains just outside the Kathmandu valley. There are two famous caves there. One is called the Asura cave, where the Lotus-Born Master tamed the demons. The other cave is located at a Naga temple, where he attained complete enlightenment.

第六个化身是释迦僧给，莲花生大士成为了第二个佛陀。虽然他在菩提迦耶受戒，但学者们认为他是在一个位于加德满都山谷外的村庄，帕尔宾杨列雪山洞中证觉的。那里有两个著名的山洞，一个叫阿修罗山洞，莲花生大士在这里降服了恶魔。另一个山洞位于龙族寺庙，是莲师成就无上正等正觉的地方。

Historically he stayed in Pharping with his Nepalese consort Shakya Devi. Our expedition learned that she was a princess from the Nepalese kingdom of Patan. When her mother, the queen died, the new queen, her step mother, effectively kicked her out of the palace. She went to Pharping, which was already a center of Shakti worship. And she became as Yogini. The Lotus-Born Master was looking for her. Together, with consort practice, they perfected the magic of the ritual dagger, called Phurba.

历史上，莲花生大士与尼泊尔明妃法侣，释迦天母生活在帕尔宾。我们探险队得知，她是来自尼泊尔帕坦王国的公主。当她的母后去世后，新皇后的继母，立即将她赶出了皇宫。她去了帕尔宾，那里已经是夏克提性力女神的膜拜中心。她成为了瑜伽母。莲师在寻找到她后，并通过明妃双运修习，他们一起圆满成就了法器的神力，称为普巴杵。